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Michael Harrington Quotes
Brief author info: Michael Harrington (1928-1989) American writer and social critic.
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One cannot raise the bottom of a society without benefiting everyone above.
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Today is always partly tomorrow and can only be understood in movement, futuristically, speculatively.
For more than fifty years, the Western world has haunted itself with rumors of its own death.
There is a familiar America. It is celebrated in speeches and advertised on television and in the magazines. It has the highest mass standard of living the world has ever known.
Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.
To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination.
Capitalism is moving toward its end massively, imperceptibly, like a glacier. Its decadence is cold, not hot.
To talk of capitalism as an economic system is the first step away from fatalism.
Capitalist man was accomplishing moral and political virtue as well as observing economic reason when he vigorously pursued his personal gain.
Love Quote
Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Inspirational Quote
You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Marriage Quote
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Life Quote
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
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